After the longest, darkest, wettest winter any of us can remember, the Wedge Trophy at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club represented a glimmering light at the end of the darkest of tunnels. Troops assembled in the bar as if coming out of hibernation, only reaching their full standing posture after an aggressively spiced bloody Mary.…
Michael and I can scarcely believe it… 15 years on from a Summer Holiday in La Manga where the idea of The Wedge Trophy was born. As a reminder, the name was created with a ‘clever’ ménage of Hedge, Waud and a then a rather lovely link to a golf utensil – and The Wedge…
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. There was now ample time to reflect on the enticing Wedge Trophy, as we mustered in the bar with panoramic windows to look out at our…
As I write this, I can barely believe we have just held our 27th Wedge Trophy. This biannual event that takes place at Deal in March and Walton Heath in October is now crayoned into everyone’s diaries as one of their favourite fixtures of the year. The matches are typically 10-aside and 36 holes foursomes.…
I simply cannot believe we have just played our 24th edition of The Wedge Trophy. Like many ideas, The Wedge Trophy was devised between two great friends (myself and Michael) as we returned from a three day bender in Southern Spain. Twelve years on we are still going strong, with 95 players having battled it…
A star-studded celebration of The Wedge, and surprisingly ‘Sturge the Surge’ enjoyed the warmest reception of the evening. Though even with Guinness goggles, Waudo was only sufficiently charmed to be seen offering his orange based conserve. The sole major indiscretion of behaviour was confronted by Her Majesty no less, elegantly addressing the elephant in…
I am sure we are all familiar with this famous children’s rhyme – ‘Liar, Liar, Pants are on Fire’, but I am sure you would agree that this is not something you would expect to be the headline of a match report on The Wedge Trophy website. More on this later… So on Saturday the…
Bright golden morning, salivating at the prospect, excited, perhaps nervous, it was mixed emotions as Stephen Tillie pulled up to the McDonald’s arches. He had decided the usual Wedge social in the clubhouse preceding the golf was an inferior offering than that of Ronald McDonald. He perhaps thought of keeping his little pre-Wedge pitstop secret,…
The 20th playing of The Wedge Trophy In a time of great uncertainty, it was great to bring some certainty back to our lives with the playing of the Walton Heath leg of The Wedge Trophy. Now in our 20th playing, we had planned a big anniversary lash up, but alas, we had to tone…
It’s inevitable, I suppose, that when you bring together a group of 16 talented, charming young men in the prime of their lives, good things will happen. However, of the bunch that turned up at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club last weekend, only three were deemed talented, two charming, and more than half were so…